Improvement in pepper or table-salt bottles



J. A. ROBBINS. Pepper or Table Salt Bottle.

Patented July 2,1878.

UNITED STATES JOSEPH A. ROBBINS, OF

HALF HIS RIGHT TO SAME PLACE.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- TVli'l. E. CARLTON AND ELIPIIAZW. ARNOLD, OF

IMPROVEMENT IN PEPPER OR TABLE-SALT BOTTLES.

Specilirntim'i forming part of Letters Patent No. %5,57fi, dated July 2,1878; application filed June 8, 1878.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnrn A. ROBBINS, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Pepper or Table-Salt Bottles, of which the following isa specification":

The object of my invention is to provide means to prevent the cloggingof the neck and perforated cap of a pepper-box or other similar articleprovided for holding any granulated or powdered substance-such astablesalt, sugar, pepper, Ste-which it is desired to have pass freelythrough the perforated cap or cover of the same in small particles, soas to be evenly distributed over the food to which it is desired to beapplied; and it consists in the construction, combination, andarrangeinentof a secondary perforated disk suspended below theperforated cap and within the neck of the bottle or at its junction withthe onlarged body of the same, as hereinafter more fully described andset forth.

Figure l is a perspective view, showin my invention attached to theperforated cap removed from the bottle. Fig. 2 is a vertical section ofthe same with the perforated cap attached to the bottle.

A represents a salt or pepper bottle having a contracted neck, B,provided with an exterior screw-thread to secure the perforated cap 0 inplace, as usual. To the center of thecap O is secured a short stud orprojection, E, extending downward, so that when the cap 0 is saidperforated cap, so as in position its lower end shall reach to thejunction of the neck B with the body A of the bottle, as shown. To thelower end of the downward-proiecting stud E is secured a perforateddisk, H, its diameter corresponding to that of the neck B internally, soas to permit to be revolved therein in the act of attaching and removingthe outer perforated cap, to which it is connected by a screw-threadupon the end of the stud E, or in any other desired manner. This inneror secondary perforated disk H prevents the granulated or pulverizedcontents of the bottle A from clogging or compacting in the neck B whenreversed in the act of shaking or (.liseharging the same upon food, asdesired, and likewise prevents any large lump or lumps from falling uponthe perforations in the cap 0, and thus prevent a free discharge of suchgranulated or pulverized substance through the perforations in the capas may be contained in the bottle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is-- In combinationwith the perforated cap C and bottle A B, the secondary perforated diskH, provided with the stud E, connected to the to be suspended within thelower extremity of the neck of bottle, as and for the purposes setforth.

JOSEPH A. ROBBINS.

Witnesses SYLVENUs WALKER, II. S. TALBOT.

